Abstract
In this ongoing project, we investigate how the COVID-19 epidemic affects the IT labor market, and, accordingly, how organizations choose to hire IT employees in the current situation. Using a quarterly dataset of 30,678 IT job postings from a large online employment website, we perform descriptive analysis and logistic regression to examine the relationships between pandemic severity and work arrangements (remote vs. on-site), work schedules (part-time vs. full time), and organizational sectors (commercial vs. government vs. non-profit). Our results reveal that the IT market in the summer quarter (June, July, and August) is better than in the previous period, for both part-time and remote job postings. Also, pandemic severity is positively associated with the incidence of on-site IT hires. For governments and non-profit organizations (NPOs) such as hospitals and schools, “frontline” IT support professionals were highly prized, whereas commercial employers, including tech giants, were more interested in growing a remote IT workforce. In our conclusions, we discuss the balance between the trajectory of diagnosed infections and the fluctuations of the labor market, specifically in the IT sector.
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